[1] His venture was quickly a success, and the following year, Wollaston formed a company to expand and landscape the site with Willard Hall serving as president.

Engineer George Read Riddle was hired to design the cemetery.

[2] In 1850, James Canby planted an imported cedar of Lebanon at the entrance of the cemetery.

The cemetery's chapel, designed by architect Elijah Dallett Jr.,[4] was built in 1913 of Foxcroft stone with window sills of Indiana limestone.

[5] In 1917, the cemetery received remains originally interred at the 18th-century First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington's Rodney Square.